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Our panel of international journalists look at Donald Trump’s latest comments concerning his border wall, this while his Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was on an official visit to Mexico, Turkish diplomats seeking asylum in Germany, and Marine Le Pen’s lead in the French presidential election.
This week the France 24 Debate heads to Bonnelle, a village 45km from Paris that sits astride the two sides for France which seem to be going head to head in the 2017 Presidential Election. On one side, the France of the cities and urban areas who are fully integrated in the globalized economy. On the other the rural France that feels left behind and isolated. Sunday’s election between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron will determine which of these Frances makes their voice heard.
Today in The World This Week, our panel of international journalists look at the French presidential race between far right candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump’s 100 day milestone, and the Papal visit to Egypt.
It was a spectacle unseen in previous French presidential races. Lively exchanges but no knockout punches in a five-way candidates’ debate. The over three hour long event served up five different visions of France, but did it set the tone for the homestretch of this campaign. What are the issues that will decide an election that the whole world is watching?
In four months François Hollande will no longer be president and with candidates jockeying for position, they're all playing president-elect in speeches that are sometimes live on all-news channels, often for replay only on the Internet. This Wednesday it was the turn of first-round front runner Marine Le Pen, the far-right candidate. Will the French really opt for a candidate whose election would certainly spell doom for the Paris-Berlin axis that's powered Europe for half-a-Century?
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